Battle of the bulge with Henry Fonda and Robert shaw is pretty old school but still was a good WW II movie. I love watching those weapons in band of brothers, the garands, the grease guns, the tommy guns, the 1911's and the German mg-42. I always liked at watching the recruits in full metal jackets with m1a's in basic but then when the show transitioned to Vietnam the GI's had m-16's. Those German mg-42's were damn wicked. I never seen one in real life or evn offered for sale on armslist, etc...
One of the worst war movies was the thin red line. It had a couple of good battle scenes but the narration and the flashbacks me all cornfused! I couldn't tell what the point of the movie or even who was talking the narration. It got too carried away into trying to be "artsy".
I completely agree! I think i started to doze off in the middle of the movie and thats why i didnt understand why he was hanging out with some tribe. Or maybe i just didnt understand why he was hanging out with some tribe.
Well I havent seen the Air Force mentioned so Ill add a couple I didnt see yet...not technically Air Force but close enoufgh...Memphis Belle...and not technically a war movie per se it does refer to the "Cold War" Strategic Air Command with Jimmy Stewart.
Post '79......
Hamburger Hill
Red Dawn
Does Jacob's Ladder count as a war movie?
Hamburger Hill
Red Dawn
Does Jacob's Ladder count as a war movie?
That's Terrence Malick in a nutshell. I really liked that movie. I thought it did a good job of expressing the 'individual' side of war and that any solder (even an intellectual pacifist) is capable of being a hero, and that a 'hero' - a blood and guts jingoist - can shrivel when it gets real. Furthermore, the guys that 'love' war are crazy and evil the same no matter which side of the field they are one.
I understand your opinion, though. It's a very non-typical WW2 movie.
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